1 Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.
2 And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war, because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.
3 For, win or lose, we lose just the same.
4 If we win this war and have the Cotton Kingdom of our dreams, we still have lost, for we will become a different people and the old quiet ways will go.
5 The interior section was what counted, if the South was going to win the war, and Atlanta was now the center of things.
6 There had been the problem of trying to win Ashley's love and trying to keep a dozen other beaux dangling and unhappy.
7 Of course, I know the practical in you will always win, but I keep hanging around to see if your better nature won't triumph some day.
8 If we just stand together and don't give an inch to the Yankees, we'll win, some day.
9 It was a fight that could not win but it had, at least, postponed the inevitable.
10 During the babyhood of each child she had been too busy, too worried with money matters, too sharp and easily vexed, to win their confidence or affection.
11 She was almost sure she had "landed" him: a few days' work and she would win her reward.
12 It was not, alas, a clean rush of waves they had to win through, but a clogging morass of old associations and habits, and for the moment its vapours were in his throat.
13 The one thing you can bet on is that no matter what happens to the German people, win or lose, they'll stick by the Kaiser till hell freezes over.
14 If you do lose, you feel foolish; and if you win, as soon as you find out how little it is that you've been scheming for, why then you lose worse than ever.
15 She could hear the town yelping with it, every soul of them, gleeful at new details, panting to win importance by having details of their own to add.